Ásta Bennie Hostetter NYC costume designer

Nina
by Forrest Malloy

director Katie Birenboim
sets Wilson Chin
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Wheeler Moon
sound Brandon Bulls
stage manager Morgen E. Doyle
photos Emilio Madrid

Theaterlab

Infinite Life
by Annie Baker
director James Mcdonald

sets dots
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Isabella Byrd
sound Bray Poor
make-up & hair Alfreda “Fre” Howard
props Noah Mease
movement director Sasha Milavic Davies

assistant director NYC Caitlin Ryan O’Connell
assistant director London Georgia Green

assistant costume designer Annie Hoeg

Atlantic Theater @ Linda Gross Theater August 18 - October 15 2023
The National @ Nelson November 22 - January 13 2024

photos Ahron R. Foster

10 Days in a Madhouse

music by Rene Orth
libretto by Hannah Moscovitch

world Premiere Performed in English with English supertitles Part of Festival O23

conductor Daniela Candillari
director Joanna Settle
choreographer Faustin Linyekula
sets and lights Andrew Lieberman
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter & Avery Reed
sound Robert Kaplowitz & Chris Sannino
make-up & hair Alfreda “Fre” Howard
assistant director Zaina Yasmin Dana

photos Dominic M Mercier

October 2023 Opera Philadelphia

Girlish, perilous, sexy and bleak...

-Alexis SoloskiNY Times Critic's Pick

A f*cked-up mixtape about love, motherhood, and violence. A fresh stab at Woyzeck that collides song and text, Marie It’s Time pumps hot blood through the veins of theater’s favorite murder-victim. A three-person play with songs staged as a rock show features Jennifer Seastone and Julia Jarcho as versions of the doomed Marie, and Kedian Keohan as Major, the backbeat and object of lust.minor theater and HERE Arts center present

Marie It's Time 

Written and co-composed by Julia Jarcho
Music & music direction by Jeff Aaron Bryant

Directed by Ásta Bennie Hostetter
Performed by Julia Jarcho, Jennifer Seastone*, & Kedian Keohan
Sets Meredith Ries
Costumes Hahnji Jang
Lights Ebony Burton
Sound Ben Williams and Elliot Yokum
Line Producer Caitlin Adams
Production Stage Manager Liz Weber*
Production Manager Brittany Coyne
Intimacy & Fight Director Leana Gardella
Choreography Pauli PontrelliDevelopment & Dramaturgy Sebas Alarcon
Assistant Costume Cate Alston
Wardrobe Supervisor Victoria Lowell
Assistant Lighting Kristen Paige*
Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. 
Equity Approved Showcase.

HERE Arts Center, Sept - Oct 2022

Content Warning: Contains scenes of sexual violence

Development support for Marie It’s Time provided by Brown Arts Institute at Brown University & Brown University’s Humanities Research Fund Initiative.Minor theater was supported by HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) for development and production of Marie It’s Time

composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder

sung in German with text in Chinese, English, Greek, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Tagalog

conductor Tong Chen
director Emma Griffin
assistant director Giancarlo Abrahan
choreographer Sunny Hitt

sets Alejandro Fajardo & Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lightsAlejandro Fajardo
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
projections Alessandra Cronin
hair & makeup Anais McCaskie

Assistant Costume Designer Annie Hoeg
Photos Maria Baranova

April 2023
Gerald R. Lynch Theater John Jay College

composition libretto by Gelsey Bell
dir Tara Ahmadinejad

sets Afsoon Pajoufar
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Masha Tsimring
sound Hidenori Nakajo

photo Maria Baranova

featuring
Gelsey Bell
Ashley Pérez Flanagan
Aviva Jaye
Paul Pinto

Creative producers Kristin Marting & Amanda Szeglowski
Line producer Amanda Cooper

Production manager Wednesday Derrico
Stage Manager Aoife Hough
Assistant costume design: Annie Hoeg & Susanne Houstle

HERE Arts Center January 2023

Prototype Festival

photography Maria Baranova

by Harrison David Rivers
dir David Mendizábal

sets Wilson Chin
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Nic Vincent
make-up Kirk Cambridge Del-Pesche
sound & original music Mauricio Escamilla
choreography Tislarm Bouie
fight and intimacy direction Rocío Mendez

photos Joan Marcus

October 2022
Roundabout Underground

dir Brandon Weinbrenner
by Sandy Rustin based on a screenplay by Jonathan Lynn

sets Tim Mackabee
lights Jason Lynch
sound Palmer Heffernan

The Alley Theater

dir Ashley Tata

new translation of Moliere by Sylvaine Guyot and Gideon Lester

original Music Paul Pinto
choreography Dan Safer
intimacy and fight dir Cha Ramos
sets by Afsoon Pajoufar
lights by Cha See
sound Chad Raines
video Lisa Renkel
hair and makeup Fre Howard / Faces by Fre

Bard Summerscape

photo Maria Baranova

dir Shana Cooper
by William Shakespeare

sets Wilson Chin
lights Steven Strawbridge
sound Paul Peterson
original music and sound design PJ Prendergast
movement Tiffany Rachelle Stewart

The Old Globe Theater, San Diego
photo Jim Cox

by Grace McClean

dir Emma Griffin
conductor Geoff McDonald

sets Meredith Ries
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Oona Curley

New School Mannes School

produced by Waterwell on Governor's Island

Co-created by
Lee Sunday Evans, Ásta Bennie Hostetter, & Mariana Sanchez

Directed and Choreographed
Lee Sunday Evans

Music Written and Performed
Mauro Refosco & Gustavo Di Dalva

Co-Choreographed and Performed
Camila Canó-Flaviá, Sunny Hitt, Eleanora Pienta, Devika Wickremesinghe

Stage Management: Alfredo Macias
Producer: Adam Frank
Associate Producer: Katie Young
Design Coordinator: Stephanie Echevarria
Props Sourcing: Patricia Marjorie
House Head Builder: Raphael Mishler
Assistant Stage Manager: Zachary Jenkins
Videographer: A. Mert Erdem
Photographer: Jeremy Daniel Shaffer
Publicist: Kelly Guiod
House Manager: Britt Berke
Run Crew: Maggie Manzano

written by Will Eno

dir Oliver Butler

sets Kimie Nishikawa
costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Avery Reed
lights Amith Chandrashaker
sound Lee Kinney
composer Daniel Kluger

TFANA February 2019 an then 2021 …

by Paula Vogel
dir Jordan Fein

sets Kimie Nishikawa
lights Oona Curley
sound Jeff Aaron Bryant
movement KatieRose McLaughlin

Weston Playhouse Theater
photos Kimie Nishikawa & Oona Curley

dir James Barry
by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso

set and video Nicholas Hussong
lights Oliver Wason
sound Nathan Leigh

Berkshire Theater Group

photos Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware.

by and directed Julia Jarcho

sets and costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Christina Watanabe
sound Ben Williams and
video Jenny Seastone

producer Ann Marie Dorr.

minor theater @Abrons Arts Center

photos Elke Young

dir Tyne Rafaeli
by Shakespeare

sets Nina Ball
lights Jiyoun Chang
sound T. Carlis Roberts

Cal Shakes

written by Mad Ones & ensemble

dir Lila Neugebauer

sets You-Shin Chen & Laura Jellinek
lights Mike Inwood
sound Stowe Nelson
props Emmie Finckel & Noah Mease
Hair and M/U Alfreda "Fre" Howard - Face by Fre, LLC

The Mad Ones @ Ars Nova

photo Ben Arons

written and performed by Sacha Yanow
dir Caitlin Sullivan
chor Faye Driscoll

sets Cate McCrea
lights Alejandro Fajardo
sound Holland Andrews
video Sasha Wortzel
photo Ásta Bennie Hostetter

music by Carmel Dean
book by Dick Scanlan
lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay
dir Jack Cummings III, Dick Scanlan

sets Brett J. Banakis
lights Jen Schriever
sound Kai Harada

Transport Group @Abrons Arts Center

photo Carol Rosegg

dir Tyne Rafaeli
by Ming Peiffer


sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Jen Schriever
sound Tei Blow

Roundabout Underground

photo Joan Marcus, Ásta Bennie Hostetter

dir. Emma Griffin
Mahagonny by Weill & Brecht
The Medium by Carlo Menotti
set Amy Rubin
lights Oona Curley

The Curtis Institute @The Kimmel Center

photo credit:
Andrew Bogard

by Clare Barron
dir. Lee Sunday Evans
sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Barbara Samuels
sound Brandon Wolcott

Playwrights Horizons
photo Joan Marcus

dir Will Davis
by Alex Lubischer

sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Jen Schriever
sound Palmer Heffernan

Roundabout Underground @ The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater

photo: Joan Marcus

dir Annie Kauffman
by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher
choreography Sonya Tayeh
sets Rachel Hauck
lights Amith Chandrashaker
sound Nick Kourtides

Ars Nova @ The Connelly
photo: Ben Arons

by Kate Benson
directed by Lee Sunday Evans
sets Kristen Robinson
lights Amith Chandrashaker
sound Kate Marvin

@ The Bushwick Starr
photo Marina McClure
 

by Simon Stephens
directed by Marissa Wolf
sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Grand Wilcoxen
sound Brendan Aanes
movement Erika Chong Shuch

KCREP, Kansas City Missouri
photo: Arnulfo Madonado

by The Mad Ones
directed by Lila Neugebauer
sets Amy Rubin
lights Mike Inwood
sound Stowe Nelson

dir José Zayas
by Matt Barbot

sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Zach Blane
sound Jane Shaw

Two River Theater, Red Bank, NU
photo credit Richard Termine

 by Sarah De Lappe
director Lila Neugebauer
sets Laura Jellinek
lights Lap Chi Chu
sound Beth Lake and Stowe Nelson

Lincoln Center 2017 @ Mitzi Newhouse Theater

photo Julieta Cervantes

Playwrights Realm @ The Duke

photo Realm Daniel J. Vasquez

dir Rachel Klein
songs by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter
book by Michael Norman Mann

sets Robert Andrew Kovach
lights Jamie Roderick
sound Kim Carbone & Ben Scheff
projection Brad Peterson

Minetta Lane Theater

written and directed by Julia Jarcho
sets Jason Simms
lights Barbara Samuels
sound Ben Williams

minor theater @ Abrons Art Center
photo Marina McClure

by Michi Barall (book) 
directed by Jack Tamburri
music by Paul Lieber and Matt Park
orchestration by Chad Raines
sets Meredith Ries
lights Oliver Wasson
 

Ma-Yi Theater Co @ ARTNY 

by Shakespeare
directed by Michael Sexton
sets and lights Brett Banakis
sound Brandon Wolcott

Red Bull Theater @ Barrow Street Theater

by Noah Haidle
director Anne Kauffman
sets Mimi Lien
lights David Weiner
sound Lindsay Jones

MCC @ Lucille Lortel

by Benjamin Britten
directed by Jordan Fein
sets Amy Rubin
lights Barbara Samuels
video 

The Curtis Institute, Philadelphia PA

choreographer Pavel Zustiak
sets Simon Harding
lights Joe Levasseur

Palissimo @ NYLA

by Annie Baker
director Sam Gold
sets Mimi Lien
lights Mark Barton
sound Bray Poor

Signature Theater

by Jaclyn Backhaus
director Will Davis
sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Solomon Weisbard
sound Jane Shaw

Co Production Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons
photo Elke Young

by Shakespeare
director Lee Sunday Evans
sets John McDermott
lights Eric Southern
sound Stowe Nelson

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
photo T. Charles Erickson

by Bathsheba Doran
directed by Stella Powell Jones
sets Jim Kronzer
lights Jesse Belsky
sound James Bigbee Garver

@ Signature Theater, Shirlington VA
 

by Mona Monsour
director Mimi O'Donnell
sets David Meyer lights Bradley King
sound Ryan Rumery
LAByrinth Theater Co.
photo Monique Carboni

by Anne Washburne
director Les Waters
sets David Zinn
lights Justin Townsend
sound Bray Poor
Soho Rep

by Gertrude Stein
director David Herskovits
sets & costumes Ásta Bennie Hostetter
lights Jenn Reiser

Target Margin Theater
Bushwick Starr & Brick Theater

photo Marina McCLure

photo Marina Mclure

by Clare Barron
director Anne Kauffman
sets Daniel Zimmerman
lights Russel Champa
sound Daniel Kluger
P73 at Here Arts Center

by debbie tucker green
director Leah Gardiner
sets Arnulfo Maldonado
lights Matt Frey
sound Matt Tierney

Soho Rep

written and directed by Julia Jarcho
Incubator Arts Project
Obie Award Best New American Play 2013

set Jason Simms
lights Barbara Samuels
sound Cooper Gardner
 

by The Mad Ones
director Lila Neugebauer
The New Ohio, 2014
sets Laura Jellinek
lights Mike Inwood
sound Stowe Nelson

by Gaetano Donizetti
directed by Jordan Fein
conducted by Vinay Parameswaran
The Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, 2013

set Amy Rubin,
lights by Amith Chandrashaker

by Andrea Thome
directed by José Zayas
Two River Theater, Red Bank NJ, 2014

set Raul Abrego
lights Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew;
sound Jane Shaw
projection Alex Koch, Kate Freer & Dave Tennent

by Mallery Avidon
directed by Lila Neugebauer
2013 Humana Festival at Actor's Theater of Louisville

set Andrew Lieberman
lights Brian H. Scott
sound Darron L. West